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Friends of the World Food Program Inc

To inspire and mobilize people in the united states to support the mission of the u.n.

$94M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$204k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$583kInternational$192kPublic Benefit$32kEducation$26kHealth$25k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $271,599, the rows itemized in this filing. The $93,935,652 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $93,664,053 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $204k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK$204,099
CENTER FOR US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP$20,000
US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN$15,000
ALLIANCE TO END HUNGER$12,500
CONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER$10,000
LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $204k → 14%ALLIANCE TO END HUNGER: $20k → 14%OPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $25k → 13%CLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 14%LIONS CLUB INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%ALLIANCE TO END HUNGER: $20k → 14%ALLIANCE TO END HUNGER: $20k → 14%ALLIANCE TO END HUNGER: $20k → 14%ALLIANCE TO END HUNGER: $13k → 14%BREAD FOR THE WORLD INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%BREAD FOR THE WORLD INSTITUTE: $10k → 14%ALLIANCE TO END HUNGER: $5k → 14%SHARE OUR STRENGTH: $100k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER: $11k → 14%CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $25k → 14%CENTER FOR US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP: $7k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER: $15k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER: $10k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER: $10k → 14%US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN: $30k → 14%CENTER FOR US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP: $25k → 14%US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN: $25k → 14%CENTER FOR US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP: $20k → 14%US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN: $15k → 14%US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN: $15k → 14%US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN: $15k → 14%US GLOBAL LEADERSHIP CAMPAIGN: $13k → 14%CONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER: $10k → 14%UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION: $60k → 14%PLANET FORWARD: $15k → 14%GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Grants abroad, by region: $94M on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 7 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$31M · 33% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ASSIST IN ALLEVIATING HUNGER

Middle East and North Africa$20M · 21% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ASSIST IN ALLEVIATING HUNGER

Central America and the Caribbean$19M · 20% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ASSIST IN ALLEVIATING HUNGER

South America$7.5M · 8% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ASSIST IN ALLEVIATING HUNGER

South Asia$6.8M · 7% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ASSIST IN ALLEVIATING HUNGER

Russia and Neighboring States$5.1M · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ASSIST IN ALLEVIATING HUNGER

East Asia and the Pacific$4.4M · 5% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ASSIST IN ALLEVIATING HUNGER

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$408k · 7 repeat orgs$449k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -35% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

$408k
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-35%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $214k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyPublic BenefitEducationHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    Center for US Global Leadership
    6× · 2019–2025 · $104k · revenue +56%
  • AT
    Alliance to End Hunger
    6× · 2019–2025 · $98k · revenue +169%
  • UG
    US Global Leadership Campaign
    3× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -38%
  • UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2019 · $60k · revenue -35%
  • CA
    CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +13%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Feeding America

Our mission is to advance change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with partner food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities we serve.

Food & Nutrition
2
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
3
The Global Hunger Project

The hunger project is working to create a world without hunger through women-centered, holistic development strategies that address the root causes of hunger and poverty. in 2025, it reached nearly 12.7 million people in over 10,000…

International
4
Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy

Iatp works locally and globally at the intersection of policy and practice to ensure fair and sustainable food, farm and trade systems.

Food & Nutrition
5
Institute for State Effectiveness

The institute for state effectiveness seeks to close the governance gap and advance inclusive growth so that states and markets deliver to citizens. ise advances practical approaches to strengthen capacity for transformation, through…

International
6
Bread for the World Inc

To advocate for changes in policies, programs and conditions that allow hunger and poverty to persist, both in the United States and around the world.

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7
Mary's Meals Usa Inc

To raise donations to (i) provide a daily meal in a place of education for children in the world's poorest communities; (ii) occasionally provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises…

International
8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.": - count it: our work is…

International
9
The Maryland Food Bank Inc

The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.

—
10
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

—
11
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
12
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Congressional Hunger Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clarkston Community Health Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $204,099 · OtherLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANKSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $100,000 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHUS Global Leadership Campaign: $60,000 · OtherUS Global Leadership CampaignAlliance to End Hunger: $97,500 · Food & NutritionAlliance to End HungerCONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER INC: $56,000 · Food & NutritionCONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTE…CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INCOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN HAND ATLANTA INCUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS F…GLOBAL CHILD NUTRITION FOUNDATION: $45,000 · InternationalGLOBAL CHILD NUT…Bread for the World Institute: $20,000 · InternationalBread for the Wo…Center for US Global Leadership: $104,000 · Public BenefitCenter for US…The George Washington University: $25,500 · EducationCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 · HealthLions Clubs International Foundation: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$364,099Food & Nutrition$203,500International$125,000Public Benefit$104,000Education$25,500Health$25,000Philanthropy$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $204,099 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for US Global Leadership: $104,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance to End Hunger: $97,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUS Global Leadership Campaign: $60,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HUNGER CENTER INC: $56,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL CHILD NUTRITION FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetThe George Washington University: $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN HAND ATLANTA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLARKSTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBread for the World Institute: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLions Clubs International Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Gates FoundationFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gates FoundationWA13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Friends of the World Food Program Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Friends of the World Food Program Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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